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SPECiFIGATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 286,280, dated Octobera, 1883.

Application filed April 14, 1883. (Modem To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WM. .H. BOUTELL, a citizen of the United'States,residing at Antrim, in the county of Hillsborough and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AppleParers, Peelers, &c.; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersor figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a cross-section. Fig.3 is a side view. Figs. 4 and .5 aredetail views.

This invention. has relation to appleparers; and it consists in thenovel construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter fullydescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended. I

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a. designates theframe of the machine, provided with a clamp, 11, having a setscrew, 0,by which the device may be secured to the edge of the table or othersupport. A

cam disk, d, is provided with guide-lugs e, e, and j, which engageguide-rods g and h of the frame a. A wormscrew, h, is journaled in thisframe, and is provided at one end with a pinion, t, which meshes with agear-wheel, It, provided with a crank-handle, Z. This gearwheel is hasits bearing in an arm, k, which carries a bracket, m, in which thefork-shaft a is journaled. This fork-shaft a is provided with a pinion,0, which meshes with the gear-wheel 7c and rotates the apple when placedon the fork. The cam-disk has an irregular cam, p, extending at rightangles to its base and inclined upwardly from a point,

' q, to a point, r, thence extending in a horizontal line to a point, s,where it again inclines upwardly and extends horizontally, as shown.'

This irregular cam is on the front face of the cam-disk. Between thisirregular cam p and the front face of the canrdisk is a slot or recess,t. A rack, a, is provided beneath the upper guide-rod of the frame, anda pinion, a, on a stud, b, passing through the center of the canrdisk,carries a disk, o, provided with bearinglugs w for the journals of theshaft a",

which carries the knife-arm z, the spring y, and the guide-arm 0,provided with the frictionrol1er d, which ,travels around the camdisk.The cam-disk, at the side opposite the gearing, is provided with an arm,f, to which the slicer g and corer h are bolted, as shown, and theynecessarily travel with the disk as it is moved by the screw, a stud, i,engaging the threads to cause the movement of the disk in eitherdirection, accordingly as the crank is turned. The rack and pinion causethe knife to be turned from its normal position,which is when thefriction-roller rests upon the highest portion of the irregular cam. Theshaft of the knife is located precisely above the center of thecam-disk, and when the gear-wheel is put in operation in a directionaway from the operator the friction-wheel descends the'inclinedirregular cam, travels around the disk, and passes beneath the cam' intothe recess or slot until it reaches the end of said recess or slot, atwhich time the knife will have pared the apple, passing quite close tothe stem and fork, and being then turned away from the apple in adirection toward the gear-wheel. As the'knife pares the apple the slicerand corer follow, and the apple is cut into strings and cored. By areverse movement of the gear wheel the knife and slicer and corer are returned to their normalpositions. The knife arm, being located centrallyof the disk, enables me to pare closer to the stem of the ap ple, so.that the only rind left-is that which is removed with the core from thefork. The irregular cam, having the slot under which the guide-armpasses, provides for the rotary movement of the knife-arm when thegearing is operated in either direction. The advantage of paring'thusclose to the core is obvious, and this can readily be done by means ofthe camdisk and the centrally-located knifearm at tached thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is,

1. In an appleparer, the combinatioinwith a sliding cam-disk, of acentrally-revolving knife-arm, a rotary fork, and mechanism foroperating the same, substantially as specified.

2. In an apple-parer, the c0mbination,with a sliding disk carrying anirregular cam, provided with a recess between it and the face of thedisk, a central rotating disk carrying a pivoted knife-arm, a guide-arnihaving a friemg a central knife-arm, a-frictional-guide-arm,

| tion-r0ller at its end, and mechanism for opl erating the same,whereby the knife may be turned away from the fork after the apple has 5been pared, substantially as specified.

In an apple-parer, the combinati0n,with the frame having guiderods, arack, and Worm-screw, of a sliding cam-disk. having a stud engaging thethreads of the screw, a pin 10 ion engaging the rack, a rotating diskcarrysaine, substantially asspeeified.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. B UTELL. \Vitnesses 4 PHILIP O. MAsI, Trmo. MUNGEN.

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